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Children in Cars Getting Coffee… or Anything Else

Children in Cars Getting Coffee… or Anything Else

Young drivers and cars have always been an expensive combination, whether they’re renting vehicles or getting their own auto insurance. This is especially true for drivers under the age of 25, at which point things generally start to improve cost-wise on both fronts.

Top Things to Know Before Retiring Abroad

Top Things to Know Before Retiring Abroad

When you consider your future retirement, you may have specific ideas and preferences in mind. Perhaps one such preference is retiring in another country. While doing so can be full of fascinating possibilities and great happiness, there are specific things to be keenly aware of when structuring your successful retirement plans.

Risky Business: Understanding Your Risk Tolerance Is Key to Financial Success

Risky Business: Understanding Your Risk Tolerance Is Key to Financial Success

The key is determining the appropriate amount of risk for the reward you are seeking. This balancing of risk and reward is the foundation of all the work we do for clients and is critically important to long-term financial success.

Q&A: Complexities of Intergenerational Wealth

Q&A: Complexities of Intergenerational Wealth

What are the situations that gen-one families are dealing with when coming into sudden wealth? How should families navigate through some of that process of making difficult decisions?

Are NFTs the Future for Collectibles?

Are NFTs the Future for Collectibles?

Although many consider the first NFT (non-fungible token) to have been created by digital artist Kevin McCoy in May 2014, the concept did not gain much public awareness until the launch of Cryptokitties, a blockchain-based virtual game in which players adopt, trade, and raise virtual cats in 2017.

Service with a Side of Technology

Service with a Side of Technology

For many industries, the decline of service and the co-opting of customers into part-time staff has dressed cost cutting up in the guise of flexibility, efficiency, and consumer choice; but it doesn’t have to be that way.

5 Things to Think About Before Buying a Vacation Home

5 Things to Think About Before Buying a Vacation Home

Watch Sand Hill Global Advisor's video about the most important things to consider before buying your dream vacation home in this frenzied real estate market, such as the cost, location, investment potential, tax impact, and exit strategy.

Top Passions Reignited During Covid

Top Passions Reignited During Covid

Many Americans reignited long-forgotten passions amidst the exhausting and traumatic months of lock-down caused by this pandemic. With stress at an all-time high and the CDC heavily cautioning against face-to-face socialization, they turned to interests they hadn’t partaken of in years. Here are some of the top pastimes they pursued.

Luxury Collectible Investing

Luxury Collectible Investing

Recently, investors are expanding into the realm of luxury collectibles to augment their portfolios. With the right passion and knowledge, high-end collecting can offer potential monetary gains. This decade-long trend is well documented, and it’s easy to see why it has captured the imagination of investors and venture capitalists around the world.

A New Post-Pandemic Normal

A New Post-Pandemic Normal

At Sand Hill, we seek to provide each and every one of our clients with a customized long-term wealth strategy that will take them into a bright financial future. We are passionate about providing financial planning solutions and independent investment management strategies to support our clients’ lifestyle.

Dreams for Sale: Buying a Vacation Home

Dreams for Sale: Buying a Vacation Home

Vacation living can be fabulous. The stress of daily meal preparation, schedules and work commitments fade away, allowing you to reconnect with family and friends in a way that can be challenging to do in your regular life.

Creating a Suitable Legacy for Your Art Collection

Creating a Suitable Legacy for Your Art Collection

Keep a detailed inventory and update it as you buy and sell, including purchase receipts, current appraisals and even photographs of the pieces in your collection.

Extra Life – Can Women Afford It?

Extra Life – Can Women Afford It?

People are living longer. This is generally a good thing. But how does this affect us financially? Can we afford it? Nowadays, people could be living in retirement for 40 years or more.

Fire Risk and Homeowners Insurance

Fire Risk and Homeowners Insurance

The devastating wildfires in California that did so much damage in the past few years are now impacting pricing and availability of homeowners insurance coverage in the state, affecting everything from primary residences in many suburban locations to popular vacation home spots like Napa Valley, Sonoma, Lake Tahoe and elsewhere. This comes on top of a decades-long increase in the overall national cost of all homeowners claims—including other types of severe natural disasters like extreme hurricanes and tornadoes.

Brenda Vingiello’s Outlook on Inflation | July 27, 2021

Brenda Vingiello’s Outlook on Inflation | July 27, 2021

For the better part of the last decade, Central Banks around the world have battled deflation as globalization, technological innovation, and slow economic growth have weighed on prices.